2019 World Series of Poker explained

Competition:	2019 World Series of Poker
Pixels:	150px
Location:	Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates:	May 28 – July 16
Champion:	Hossein Ensan
Prev:	2018
Next:	2020

The 2019 World Series of Poker was the 50th annual tournament, and took place from May 28 – July 16, 2019 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

There were 90 bracelet events. To celebrate the 50th WSOP there was a $50,000 No Limit Hold'em event as well as the Big 50, a $500 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event with a guaranteed $5 million prize pool and $1 million for the winner. There was also a tournament open only to past WSOP bracelet winners. A short deck tournament was also held for the first time. All No Limit Hold'em events employed the Big Blind Ante format.

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3 and concluded on July 16. The structure of the Main Event was changed, with players now receiving 60,000 chips at the start of the tournament, up from 50,000 in 2018.^[1]

Robert Campbell won two bracelets to earn Player of the Year honors. Daniel Negreanu was originally believed to have won the award for the third time, but it was later found that he was erroneously credited with a cash in an event where he didn't finish in the money. When points for that event were taken away, Negreanu finished third behind Campbell and the 2018 winner, Shaun Deeb.^[2]

Event schedule

Source:^[3]

	High stakes event ($10,000+ buy-in).
	No points awarded towards Player of the Year.
	Online event.

	Event	Entrants	Winner	Prize	Runner-up	Results
1	$500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em	686	Nicholas Haynes (1/1)	$62,345	Isaac Hanson	Results
2	$10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em	204	Brian Green (1/1)	$345,669	Ali Imsirovic	Results
3	$500 The Big 50 No Limit Hold'em	28,371	Femi Fashakin (1/1)	$1,147,449	Paul Cullen	Results
4	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	853	Derek McMaster (1/1)	$228,228	Jason Berilgen	Results
5	$50,000 50th Annual High Roller No Limit Hold'em	110	Ben Heath (1/1)	$1,484,085	Andrew Lichtenberger (0/1)	Results
6	$2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball	296	Daniel Zack (1/1)	$160,447	Sumir Mathur	Results
7	$400 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em	2,825	Yong Kwon (1/1)	$165,263	Gabor Szabo	Results
8	$10,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold'em	114	Alex Epstein (1/1)	$296,227	Thai Ha	Results
9	$600 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	6,151	Jeremy Pekarek (1/1)	$398,281	Dan Kuntzman	Results
10	$1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed	470	Scott Clements (1/3)	$144,957	Tim McDermott	Results
11	$5,000 No Limit Hold'em	400	Daniel Strelitz (1/1)	$442,385	Shannon Shorr	Results
12	$1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em	2,452	Daniel Park (1/1)	$226,243	Erik Cajelais (0/1)	Results
13	$1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	296	Yuval Bronshtein (1/1)	$96,278	Ajay Chabra	Results
14	$1,500 H.O.R.S.E.	751	Murilo Souza (1/1)	$207,003	Jason Stockfish	Results
15	$10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship	112	Sean Swingruber (1/1)	$186,356	Ben Yu (0/3)	Results
16	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	1,832	Isaac Baron (1/1)	$407,739	Ong Dingxiang	Results
17	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout	917	Brett Apter (1/1)	$238,824	Anatolii Zyrin	Results
18	$10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	183	Frankie O'Dell (1/3)	$443,641	Owais Ahmed (0/2)	Results
19	$1,500 Millionaire Maker No Limit Hold'em	8,809	John Gorsuch (1/1)	$1,344,930	Kazuki Ikeuchi	Results
20	$1,500 Seven Card Stud	285	Eli Elezra (1/4)	$93,766	Anthony Zinno (0/1)	Results
21	$10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	91	Jim Bechtel (1/2)	$253,817	Vince Musso	Results
22	$1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em	3,253	Jorden Fox (1/1)	$420,693	Jayachandra Gangaiah	Results
23	$1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed	612	Rami Boukai (1/2)	$177,294	John Evans	Results
24	$600 WSOP.com Online Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed	1,216	Josh Pollock (1/2)	$139,470	Jason Gooch	Results
25	$600 Pot Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,577	Andrew Donabedian (1/1)	$205,605	Todd Dreyer	Results
26	$2,620 Marathon No Limit Hold'em	1,083	Roman Korenev (1/1)	$477,401	Jared Koppel	Results
27	$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	460	Michael Mizrachi (1/5)	$142,801	Robert Gray	Results
28	$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	2,477	Stephen Song (1/1)	$341,854	Scot Masters	Results
29	$10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship	172	Greg Mueller (1/3)	$425,347	Daniel Ospina	Results
30	$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha	1,526	Luis Zedan (1/1)	$236,673	Thida Lin	Results
31	$3,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	754	Thomas Cazayous (1/1)	$414,766	Nicholas Howard	Results
32	$1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em Championship	5,917	Howard Mash (1/1)	$662,594	Jean-René Fontaine	Results
33	$1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	467	Robert Campbell (1/1)	$144,027	David Bach (0/3)	Results
34	$1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em	6,214	Joseph Cheong (1/1)	$687,782	David Ivers	Results
35	$10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship	122	Adam Friedman (1/3)	$312,417	Shaun Deeb (0/4)	Results
36	$3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout	313	David Lambard (1/1)	$207,193	Johan Guilbert	Results
37	$800 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	2,808	Robert Mitchell (1/1)	$297,537	Marco Bognanni	Results
38	$600 WSOP.com Online Knockout Bounty No Limit Hold'em	1,224	Upeshka De Silva (1/3)	$98,263	David Nodes	Results
39	$1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold'em	2,650	Michael Blake (1/1)	$359,863	Barry Shulman (0/2)	Results
40	$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha	1,216	Ismael Bojang (1/1)	$298,507	James Little	Results
41	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship	88	John Hennigan (1/6)	$245,451	Daniel Negreanu (0/6)	Results
42	$600 8-Handed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha Deepstack	2,403	Aristeidis Moschonas (1/1)	$194,759	Dan Matsuzuki	Results
43	$2,500 Mixed Big Bet Event	218	Loren Klein (1/4)	$127,808	Ryan Hughes (0/2)	Results
44	$1,500 Bounty No Limit Hold'em	1,807	Asi Moshe (1/3)	$253,933	Damjan Radanov	Results
45	$25,000 High Roller Pot Limit Omaha	278	Stephen Chidwick (1/1)	$1,618,417	James Chen	Results
46	$500 WSOP.com Online Turbo No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	1,181	Dan Lupo (1/1)	$145,274	David Clarke	Results
47	$10,000/$1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship	968	Jiyoung Kim (1/1)	$167,308	Nancy Matson	Results
48	$2,500 No Limit Hold'em	996	Ari Engel (1/1)	$427,399	Pablo Melogno	Results
49	$10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	100	Luke Schwartz (1/1)	$273,336	George Wolff	Results
50	$1,500 Monster Stack No Limit Hold'em	6,035	Kainalu McCue-Unciano (1/1)	$1,008,850	Vincent Chauve	Results
51	$2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	401	Yuri Dzivielevski (1/1)	$213,750	Michael Thompson	Results
52	$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed	518	Dash Dudley (1/1)	$1,086,967	James Park	Results
53	$800 8-Handed No Limit Hold'em Deepstack	3,759	Santiago Soriano (1/1)	$371,203	Amir Lehavot	Results
54	$1,500 Razz	363	Kevin Gerhart (1/1)	$119,054	Sergio Braga	Results
55	$1,000 WSOP.com Online Double Stack No Limit Hold'em	1,333	Jason Gooch (1/1)	$241,493	Brian Wood	Results
56	$1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold'em	1,867	Jonas Lauck (1/1)	$260,335	Robert Bickley	Results
57	$1,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold'em	976	Daniel Dayan (1/1) Ohad Geiger (1/1) Barak Wisbrod (1/1)	$168,395	Lawrence Chan Matthew Moreno Jerod Smith	Results
58	$50,000 Poker Players Championship	74	Phil Hui (1/2)	$1,099,311	Josh Arieh (0/2)	Results
59	$600 Deepstack Championship No Limit Hold'em	6,140	Joe Foresman (1/1)	$397,903	Will Givens (0/1)	Results
60	$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	1,117	Anthony Zinno (1/2)	$279,920	Rodney Burt	Results
61	$400 The Colossus No Limit Hold'em	13,109	Sejin Park (1/1)	$451,272	Georgios Kapalas	Results
62	$10,000 Razz Championship	116	Scott Seiver (1/3)	$301,421	Andrey Zhigalov (0/1)	Results
63	$1,500 Mixed Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo/Big O	717	Anatolii Zyrin (1/1)	$199,838	Yueqi Zhu (0/1)	Results
64	$888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold'em	10,185	Rick Alvarado (1/1)	$888,888	Mark Radoja (0/2)	Results
65	$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	193	Nick Schulman (1/3)	$463,670	Brian Hastings (0/4)	Results
66	$1,500 Limit Hold'em	541	David "ODB" Baker (1/2)	$161,139	Brian Kim	Results
67	$10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	151	Robert Campbell (2/2)	$385,763	Yueqi Zhu (0/1)	Results
68	$1,000 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em Championship	1,750	Nicholas Baris (1/1)	$303,739	Tara Cain	Results
69	$1,000 The Mini Main Event No Limit Hold'em	5,521	Jeremy Saderne (1/1)	$628,654	Lula Taylor	Results
70	$5,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	815	João Vieira (1/1)	$758,011	Joe Cada (0/4)	Results
71	$500 Salute to Warriors No Limit Hold'em	1,723	Susan Faber (1/1)	$121,161	Rob Stark	Results
72	$10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship	118	Juha Helppi (1/1)	$306,622	Mike Lancaster	Results
73	$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event	8,569	Hossein Ensan (1/1)	$10,000,000	Dario Sammartino	Results
74	$3,200 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em High Roller	593	Brandon Adams (1/1)	$411,561	Nabil Cardoso	Results
75	$1,111 Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em	6,248	James Anderson (1/1)	$690,686	Fernando Karam	Results
76	$800 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	1,560	Shawn Buchanan (1/1)	$223,119	David "Bakes" Baker (0/2)	Results
77	$3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed	193	Stephanie Dao (1/1)	$133,189	Alain Alinat	Results
90	$50,000 Final Fifty High Roller No Limit Hold'em	123	Danny Tang (1/1)	$1,608,406	Sam Soverel (0/1)	Results
78	$1,500 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha	1,130	Maximilian Klostermeier (1/1)	$177,823	David Callaghan	Results
79	$3,000 No Limit Hold'em	671	Ivan Deyra (1/1)	$380,090	David Gonzalez	Results
80	$1,500 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha	1,250	Jerry Odeen (1/1)	$304,793	Peter Linton	Results
81	$1,500 50th Annual Bracelet Winners Only No Limit Hold'em	185	Shankar Pillai (1/2)	$71,580	Michael Gagliano (0/1)	Results
82	$1,500 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em	2,589	Tom Koral (1/2)	$530,164	Freek Scholten	Results
83	$100,000 High Roller No Limit Hold'em	99	Keith Tilston (1/1)	$2,792,406	Daniel Negreanu (0/6)	Results
84	$1,500 The Closer No Limit Hold'em	2,800	Abhinav Iyer (1/1)	$565,346	Sammy Lafleur	Results
85	$3,000 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed	835	Alan Sternberg (1/1)	$448,392	Evangelos Kokkalis	Results
86	$10,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship	272	Anuj Agarwal (1/1)	$630,747	Kahle Burns	Results
87	$3,000 H.O.R.S.E.	301	Denis Strebkov (1/1)	$206,173	Paul Tedeschi	Results
88	$500 WSOP.com Online Summer Saver No Limit Hold'em	1,859	Taylor Paur (1/2)	$149,241	Francois Evard	Results
89	$5,000 No Limit Hold'em	608	Carl Shaw (1/1)	$606,562	Tony Dunst (0/1)	Results

Player of the Year

Final standings as of November 4 (end of WSOPE):

Standings^[4]
Rank	Name	Points	Bracelets
1	Robert Campbell	3,961.31	2
2	Shaun Deeb	3,917.32	0
3	Daniel Negreanu	3,861.78	0
4	Anthony Zinno	3,322.00	1
5	Phil Hui	3,186.17	1
6	Daniel Zack	3,126.13	1
7	Dario Sammartino	3,091.03	0
8	Chris Ferguson	2,997.10	0
9	Kahle Burns	2,983.37	2
10	Dash Dudley	2,860.79	2

Leaders

Note: these statistics not including the 15 WSOPE events.

Cashes
Rank	Name	Cashes
1	Chris Ferguson	19
T2	Marcelo Giordano Mendes	18
	Jake Schwartz
	Steven Wolansky
T5	Shaun Deeb	17
T5	Daniel Negreanu
T7	Jon Turner	16
T7	Yueqi Zhu
T9	Scott Bohlman	15
	Ismael Bojang
	Noah Bronstein

Final Tables
Rank	Name	Final Tables
T1	Robert Campbell	4
	Shaun Deeb
	Daniel Negreanu
T4	Brandon Adams	3
	Josh Arieh
	David "Bakes" Baker
	Scott Clements
	Chris Ferguson
	Phil Hui
	Ali Imsirovic
	Cary Katz
	Joseph Liberta
	Dario Sammartino
	Nick Schulman
	Denis Strebkov
	Benjamin Underwood
	Bryce Yockey
	Daniel Zack
	Yueqi Zhu
	Anthony Zinno

Main Event

The $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event began on July 3 with the first of three starting flights. The final table of 9 was reached on July 12, with the finalists returning on July 14 before a winner was determined on July 16.

The Main Event attracted 8,569 players, the second-largest field in history after 2006.^[5] The winner earned $10,000,000, with 1,286 players finishing in the money. There was a mixup at the money bubble, with Ryan Pochedly originally being credited with bursting the bubble. Several days later, however, it was determined that one elimination had not been taken into account, and Pochedly had actually finished in 1,286th place, therefore making the money.^[6]

Three past champions made the money, including Chris Moneymaker who cashed in the Main Event for the first time since winning in 2003. Moneymaker, along with David Oppenheim, was announced as the newest inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame during the final table.^[7]

Performance of past champions

Name	Championship Year(s)	Day of Elimination
Johnny Chan	1987, 1988	data-sort-value="5"	4 (560th)*
Phil Hellmuth	1989	2C
Jim Bechtel	1993	3
Scotty Nguyen	1998	3
Chris Ferguson	2000	2AB
Robert Varkonyi	2002	2C
Chris Moneymaker	2003	4 (687th)*
Greg Raymer	2004	2AB
Joe Hachem	2005	3
Jamie Gold	2006	1C
Jerry Yang	2007	2C
Joe Cada	2009	1C
Greg Merson	2012	2AB
Ryan Riess	2013	2AB
Martin Jacobson	2014	1C
Joe McKeehen	2015	2C
Qui Nguyen	2016	data-sort-value="6"	4 (455th)*
Scott Blumstein	2017	2C
John Cynn	2018	3

-Indicates player who finished in the money

Other notable high finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
67th	Jake Schindler	$117,710
82nd	Antonio Esfandiari (0/3)	$82,365

Final Table

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Hossein Ensan	177,000,000 (34.4%)	1	$3,276
Garry Gates	99,300,000 (19.3%)	11	$156,728
Zhen Cai	60,600,000 (11.8%)	15	$101,151
Kevin Maahs	43,000,000 (8.4%)	0	0
Alex Livingston	37,800,000 (7.3%)	16	$629,241
Dario Sammartino	33,400,000 (6.5%)	38	$3,446,537
Milos Skrbic	23,400,000 (4.5%)	5	$313,598
Timothy Su	20,200,000 (3.9%)	1	$927
Nick Marchington	20,100,000 (3.9%)	1	$12,415

Career statistics prior to the 2019 Main Event

Final Table results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Hossein Ensan (1/1)	$10,000,000
2nd		$6,000,000
3rd		$4,000,000
4th	Garry Gates	$3,000,000
5th	Kevin Maahs	$2,200,000
6th	Zhen Cai	$1,850,000
7th	Nick Marchington	$1,525,000
8th	Timothy Su	$1,250,000
9th	Milos Skrbic	$1,000,000

Records

The Main Event field was the largest since 2006, and the top prize of $10 million was the largest since 2014.
Event #3: $500 Big 50 No Limit Hold'em became the largest live poker tournament in history with 28,371 entrants, surpassing the previous record of 22,374 held by the Colossus in 2015.^[8]
Jim Bechtel, the 1993 Main Event champion, won Event #21: $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw for his first bracelet since his Main Event win. The 26 years between bracelet wins is the longest in WSOP history.^[9]
Loren Klein won Event #43: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet, becoming the first player since Doyle Brunson from 1976–79 and just the third overall to win bracelets in four straight years.^[10]

External links

Tournament results at the World Series of Poker

Notes and References

Web site: Cross. Valerie. 2019 World Series of Poker Schedule Sneak Peek. PokerNews. December 20, 2018. December 23, 2018.
Web site: Bradley. Lance. Negreanu Loses WSOP POY Title to Campbell After Data Error Discovered. PocketFives.com. November 8, 2019. November 8, 2019.
Web site: 2019 WSOP Final Schedule. WSOP.com. March 1, 2019.
Web site: WSOP Player of the Year standings. WSOP.com.
Web site: Benjamin . Cody . World Series of Poker 2019: Hossein Ensan claims $10 million prize with his first Main Event victory . CBSSports.com . 2019-06-12 . 2024-11-12.
Web site: Cross. Valerie. Mystery of the 1,286th Finisher in the 2019 WSOP Main Event Solved. PokerNews.com. July 15, 2019. July 17, 2019.
Web site: Schult. Steve. David Oppenheim And Chris Moneymaker Inducted Into Poker Hall Of Fame. CardPlayer. July 15, 2019. July 17, 2019.
Web site: Fast. Erik. 2019 World Series of Poker Big 50 Event Sets The Record For Largest Live Tournament Field In History. Cardplayer.com. June 4, 2019. June 5, 2019.
Web site: Hintze. Haley. JIM BECHTEL CAPTURES NO-LIMIT DEUCE-TO-SEVEN LOWBALL GOLD. WSOP.com. June 11, 2019. June 12, 2019.
Web site: Kores. Jan. Loren Klein Wins 4th Bracelet in 4 Years; Claims $127,808 in Event #43: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet. PokerNews.com. June 20, 2019. June 21, 2019.